Thoughts on Relationships

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 5035

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ryan Goertz" <rgoertz at a...> wrote:

> When I was thinking of the end of that relationship I then
> thought that Harry now has a chance to be with Cho. I realized
> that was a rather shallow thought. (snip)
> What I am guessing as a possible storyline is that Harry will
> probably try to approach her and she will be very stand-offish
> around him. She might even resent him for the death of Cedric. 

In the Files/Fanfic section of this egroup is a story I wrote about 
Cedric's funeral (anyone who read it before last weekend, it's longer 
now). Part of the reason that I wrote it is that it came into my 
mind and wouldn't go away, but another part is to provide a way 
for Harry and Cho to get together.

Which is kind of tough in my universe, in which Cho and Cedric were 
already dating last year altho' unobservant Harry didn't notice, and 
this year had advanced from 'going steady' to 'engaged to be engaged' 
(how many people on this list are old enough to remember when there 
was a whole sequence of relationships between 'just friends' and 
'engaged to be married'? But the wizard folk tend to be old- 
fashioned). It might be a little easier in a universe in which the 
Yule Ball was C and C's first and only date.

But what I have, I have my invented character Mary Fawcett (remember 
the Fawcetts and the Lovegoods were the two neighbor families that 
Arthur mentioned to Amos) is Cho's Ravenclaw roommate (and best 
friend) and she is busy trying to cheer Cho up, and she gets a bee in 
her bonnet that Harry also needs cheering up because of the horrible 
Dursleys, and I see her owling Harry all summer, inviting him to grab 
Ron and come over to Mary's house to play two-on-two Quidditch girls 
against boys (as a plan to entertain both Harry and Cho at once). Or 
to let the Muggle-born Cho take them on a tour of a Shopping Mall.

Unfortunately, it would be in Harry's character to refuse all her 
kind invitations, perhaps replying that she should just invite Ron 
and one of his brothers, but he (Harry) cannot leave the Muggles. 
Maybe he would relent if he realised that Mary is *not* romantically 
pursuing him: she has a nice Hufflepuff boyfriend who shares her 
passion for Quidditch. 

That would be many times that Harry and Cho are thrown together, and 
they could become friends, which under the circumstances they should 
do before becoming lovers.

Btw, I did already read Peg Kerr's post on this thread, and when I 
first posted the first part of 'Cedric's Funeral', Pippin (foxmoth, 
is it?) e-mailed me suggesting that what Cho is up to, in the 
conversation she starts with Harry, is that she wants to ask him what 
happened to Cedric. Also, GoF showed Cho as a perfect sweetheart: she 
didn't wear a POTTER STINKS badge when all the other Ravenclaws 
did, and if she was already going with Cedric, she would have had 
extra motivation to do so. She tried to help Harry with his dropped 
(quill, was it?) when everyone else was heckling him.